Saul v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 829 · 1991
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Washington v. Garrett (1993), Sarullo v. United States Postal Service (2003)
109 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2672 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 5 U.S.C. § 1206 · 5 U.S.C. § 1214 · 5 U.S.C. § 2301 (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002) · 5 U.S.C. § 2302
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Barr v. Matteo · Forrester v. White · Bush v. Lucas · United States v. Fausto
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the CSRA precludes even those Bivens claims for which the act prescribes no alternative remedy.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“with proper regard for their privacy and constitutional rights.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he CSRA's comprehensive remedial provisions convince us that there was no inadvertence by Congress in omitting a damages remedy against supervisors whose work-related actions allegedly violate a subordinate's constitutional rights,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.